The times., 1887-02-18
NEWS SUMMARY.

The cotton crop is estimated at g.
GAO, 900 bales.
A fire at Rangoon, India, destroyed |
four hundred houses.
The fund raised by subscription for
Mrs. Logan amounts to S64 600.
The Missouri house defeated bill to
establish and maintain state militia.
The striking coal-miners in Scotland
are resorting to many acts or lawiess-
ness.
Both honses of the Nevada legisla-
ture have passed bill to dlsiranchise
MormOns.
The Nebraska house passed, a bill
providing for q bureau OF industrial
statistics.
Governor Rusk,. of Wisconsin, is i'll
from fever. and is threatened with
pneumonia.
The volcano Mauna Loa, on the
Sandwich islands has recommended
active eruptlons.
A Berlin journal asserts that France
will send no more reinfOrcementS TO
the frontier until February 2l.
President Cleveland has vetoed the
pension bill for the relief of dependent
parents and INDECENT soldiers.
The Pennsylvania House has passed
n Joint resolution for submission to the
people of prOhibitOry amendment.
III. V. Bemis, of Chicago, sued the
st. Paul Globe for $4,000 damages for
libel, and the jury awarded him cent.
The Milwaukee house of correction is
nearly self-supporting. The chair fac
tory last year made profit OF $l5,24.
March 2 Pope Leo will celebrate his
10th birthday, and the day following
The tenth anniversary OF his corona
tion.
An oil well yielding one thousand
barrels daily has been developed III
the North Baltimore field, near Find
lay, o.
CAPTAIN Greely, the Arctic explorer,
has been appointed chief of the signal
service, with the rank OF brigadler
general. :,
The st. Paul road has forbidden its
passenger agents to issue passes 10
other persons than Donahde railway
employees
Tn the senatorial ballot in West
Virginia, Thursday, Duval and Cam
den each got 81 votes and Judge Arm
strong 10.
Ex-Aldcrman Duffy, of New York.
who informed on his fellow-bOodlers
has been surrendered by his bondsman
Robert Boyd.
A bill has been introduced in the
Nebraska House to provide for the
stamping OF merchandise maze III th'
penitentiary.
The British House of Commons, b.
n vote of 352 to 246, rejected Parnell
amendment to the address i'll reply Il
the queens speech.
The Union Pacific road recentil
hauled train-load of Chinese: sill
from Ogden to Council Bluffs inside
forty-four hours.
The Alabama legislature has adopt
ed a Joint resolution urging the Con
gressional delegation to vote Tor I'll
Blair educational bill.
The Knights of Labor have pul
chased for their general headquarteI
"a building on North Broad stfee
Philadelphia, for S65,OOO.
The Ohio Senate unanimously adop
cd n resolution offering $4,000 rewaI
for the arrest of the Ravenna outlaw
but the House defeated it.
The eighteenth senatorial ballot
the legislature of West Virginia gay
+. N. Camden So votes, Edwin MaXwt
So. and Okey Johnson II.
The secretary of state of Indiana L
fuses to certify to Turpie's election III
til he can get an opinion from the
torney general on the subject.
A call for S1O.O0O,O00 B per eel
bonds will probably be issued he
week. in pursuance of the intention
extinguish that loan by June 30.
For the equipment of the volunte
army. bills are before the Austrl
reichsrath for 12,OO0,000 florins ano t
Hungarian diet for 100000 fiorins.
John Staver, an aged resident
Suspension Bridge, walked OUT up
the structure Tuesday morning, "a
leaped into the rapids of Niagara rlv
There are four candidates In !
field for mayor of Sharon, Penns
vania, the leader being q col0red $
dier backed by the knights OF LaD'
Williamson Plant. secretary OF !
Vandalia road from its inception, a.
ut Greenville, ILL.,, where he was
leader in political and business circl
S. S. Hollingsworth, ex-county tire
urer mt Vincennes, Indiana,
found guilty of embezzling $50, 600. 9
given three years in the penitentia
A Jury at Memphis acquitted
Russell Goodwin of the murder OF Il
dalton i'm the rotunda of the Peabt
hotel. The trial lasted twenty-th
days.
Captain G.. w. Conant, q well-kno
rjyer-man of Pittsburg. 90 years
AGE. has been held in 81 600 bail
sending vile letters to Mrs. "a
Moore.
The grand jury of Rowan colri
Ky.. has indicted Harry ;. Logan